Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need ...

James: The new model for modern web apps is similar to old Client/Server architecture but this time the Client is the browser with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML; while the Server is RESTful JSON services.

Google Voice Search, which is a feature of the Google Search app, performs the voice recognition for each query on the client-side, while Apple's Siri processes these requests on the server-side ...